| It is a bargain of which thousands, like Esau, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, have repented, but many, unhappily, like Esau, have repented too late. |
| Most meals would have been some form of stew, soup or pottage cooked in a cauldron over the central hearth of the house. |
| I have a sense we have sold our birthright for a mess of pottage, which has been the main benefit of unrestrained mass immigration of recent years. |
| They have sold their golden birthright of American liberty for a mess of coward's pottage. |
| It is being replaced by trust which is bought and sold and loyalty which is expected and demanded for a mess of pottage. |
| Some of them have been won by a mess of pottage, a mere bauble or a gewgaw. |
